Ikigait (
Danish: ''Herjulfsnæs'') is a former community in
Greenland
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about 3 km west of
Narsarmijit
Narsarmijit, formerly Narsaq Kujalleq and Frederiksdal (Anglicised: Frederiksthal), is a settlement in southern Greenland. It is located in the Kujalleq municipality near Cape Thorvaldsen. Its population was 62 in 2024. There has been a slow but ...
. It was the site of
Herjólfr Bárðarson's farm
Herjolfsnes ("Herjolf's Point"), one of the
easternmost of the Norse settlements during their
colonization of Greenland.
The location was established around 1885, when a few artifacts were discovered and returned to
Denmark
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. In 1921, an excavation was led by Danish historian and archaeologist Poul Nørlund (1888-1951), which found the church graveyard.
References
Norse settlements in Greenland
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